The Philippine state, as a labor broker produces, distributes and regulates Filipino migrants, as citizen-workers, globally. As a labor brokering state the Philippine government produces and distributes workers for various types of capital and their attendant flexible labor regi…
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Background. The effect of labor migration on HIV risk is well documented. Many studies show that domestic and international labor migration increases sexual risk behavior. However, little is known about the role of gender on HIV risk among labor migrants. This study examines and…
This dissertation is a study of ethics in motion for German-Turkish return migrants. I argue that migration and return prompt ethical reflection, ethical change, and ethical work. Drawing from 25 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I examine the ethical dilemmas migrants confront …
This dissertation focuses on three aspects of the economic life of migrants' relatives who remained in the source country. In the second chapter, we argue that migration increases the job dissatisfaction of migrants’ relatives who work in the source country. The family’s migrati…
This study investigated the factors that influenced the adaptation of migrants to the country of Brazil. The review of the literature, as well as a qualitative study conducted by the author in the country of Brazil, indicated that education, gender, age at migration, length of t…
Since the early twentieth century, Mexican migrants and immigrants have been an integral segment of the agricultural laborer force. As part of the traditional agrarian class model, Mexican farm laborers were physically, socially, and politically apart from rural communities. Mor…
The study tests the hypothesis that migrants offer insurance against illness. The analysis uses panel data on about 732 households spanning 44 villages over 3 provinces in rural Pakistan over three years with a 20-year series of district level rainfall data. The probability of s…
In looking at rural-urban linkages, this thesis addresses the extent to which social research may be generalized within development policy. Studies of Yoruba migrants in south-western Nigeria demonstrate that the ties between migrants and their hometowns can have a positive impa…
It is well documented that migrants maintain economic ties with their communities of origin. This dissertation investigates migrants' housing investments in their communities of origin, a previously unexplored subject. Nearly half of a Nigerian emigrant sample (N = 112) has init…
In 1975, the Governments of Iraq and Egypt signed a bilateral agreement according to which Egyptian peasant families would be resettled in Iraq. One hundred settlers and their families arrived in 1976 in the Khalsa Settlement south of Baghdad, where each was given a house and th…
This thesis examines how the Uyghur migrants in Guangzhou construct their ethnicity. I deconstruct the voice behind the state discourse, and analyze three binary relationships between the Uyghur migrants and the state, between the Uyghur migrants and the Han, and between the Uyg…
Chicago in the early twentieth century (1910s) and Istanbul later in the century (1950s), each experienced an influx of rural migrants, a process that challenged the ability of the city and its residents to cope with the ensuing problems. Though separated by time and place, Chic…